June 1, 2021
When you’re Swedish living in America, you get to celebrate Mother’s day twice a year.
It was Mors Dag (mother’s day) in Sweden on Sunday.
One of my goals for this long Memorial Day weekend was to start my computer and update here. I didn’t get a chance to do that. Whenever I had a few minutes over I prioritized other things, like, enjoying my cup of coffee or eating a slice of pizza or snuggle Thor. I don’t have many daily goals these days other than keeping our babies alive:) One thing on my list this weekend was to shower my hair and I got to do that (yay!), another was to fold laundry which I did maybe a third of the current pile that will multiply today. Right now I’m trying to eat breakfast and update here as fast as I possibly can before I have to feed again – I can do stuff on my laptop while she eats but it’s quite difficult plus I want to keep my focus on her.
(well,…it took me 9 hours and 45 minutes from when I started to write this post til I’m ready to publish it hahah. I have been pretty busy today AND been stuck nursing for extra long sessions)
So, what has happened since last time I updated?
My original plan was to wait to get vaccinated until after I’m done breastfeeding, so, sometime at the end of the year. But after reading about that babies get antibodies through vaccinated mothers milk and after talking to other moms whos got it already, I decided that the right decision for me and our daughter is to get the vaccine now. Since I have to fly with Lily in July (regardless of where we move) I want us to be as protected as possible.
On Friday, as I was feeding Lily lunch, I signed up to get myself a first vaccine shot… 40 minutes later. You don’t actually have to sign up, they allow drive-ins, but it’s easier to fill out your personal info online than having to do it in the car at the sight. When we were all dressed, we drove over to the sight (five min away). It’s like three huge parking lots, all empty (cause nobody is getting their shots now – they either already got them or they don’t want to get them). I sat in the backseat with Lily, rolled down the window, got my shot in my left arm and then had to sit in the car for 20 minutes on a different part of the parking to make sure I felt fine before we could leave. Lily didn’t enjoy a stopped car but fell asleep as soon as we moved.
So now I got my first vaccine shot and I’m happy with my decision. I have to go back in three weeks for my second one and then we should be good to fly down south:) And how did I feel after the shot? In the middle of the night when I was feeding L my arm felt a little sore but it was gone by the time we got out of bed in the morning, so not bad at all. Some say they got sick after the second though so I have to pick a good day for that.
It has mostly just been raining this weekend so we have been enjoying our baby bubble inside. Lily sleeps, eats, has her poop explosions, plays at the gym, reads books, listens to mamma singing old Swedish kids songs (that I have now realized have pretty terrible lyrics) and starting to smile in response to what we are doing. She is still a dream. She’s so sweet, very funny with all her weird noises and different facial expressions and I can see that there is a little character with her own personality coming out more and more.
On Sunday, I really wanted us to have some fresh air but didn’t feel like taking the stroller out in the pouring rain, so I put her in the carrier that we were gifted and all four of us went for a walk up and down the covered parking lot of our building.
Lily after a sponge bath, just too cute♥ She still has a tiny bit of the umbilical cord left so we haven’t given her a real bath yet but she is def due for one
Yesterday, Monday, it finally stopped raining and the sun even came out for a bit. We’ve had some colder temperatures out now which I honestly don’t mind at the moment, Lily needs to gradually get used to hotter weather. Anyway, after lunch, we went for a longer walk to the “cute street”. It’s so wonderfully green over there now. I don’t think I have walked over there since maybe Christmas. It’s not far from us but the bigger my belly got the less away from our home I wanted to walk.
Today, even if I had what felt like a million things to do, I took both babies out for a walk by myself while Jim went to the bank. It wasn’t that easy though cause Mr Daddy’s Boy didn’t really want to walk anywhere, I kept dragging him around behind me. I should be used to that by now though cause it has been like this since the pandemic started.
Every night this week, Lilliput has been fussy for about an hour around 7-ish. Babies her age is “supposed to” sleep for 16-20 hours/day, but Lily sleeps an average of 12 hours/day which she seems pretty ok with and then she sleeps through the night. But she does have a fussy hour because she is overtired. Crying and crying and crying, and if I happen to be a bit extra tired then I allow myself to cry a little too. This is apparently called “
How are our babies doing? Thor is still not really convinced that Lily is a keeper, but he also seems to be a bit protective of her. He is curious about her and has come closer to her, even given her a kiss on her hand, but for the most part he keep his distance. And Lily is getting chubbier every day which is great of course, that means she is eating well. She has now also started to poop like a normal baby. The first 1.5 week we got maybe two poops from her. Since Saturday we have got plenty of explosions. Jim and I just kept laughing and laughing after the first one on Saturday arrived. She doesn’t give us any warning, and she has the calmest facial expression right before and during hahaha. 
